On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:25:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 01 August 2005 08:06, Shark Wang wrote:
>>all you x-window startup based on this file '.xinitrc', pls check
>> out at your home directory!
>>
>># more ~/.xinitrc
>>
>>for gnome, it should be 'exec gnome-sessions'
>
> And is there a corresponding 'kde-sessions'? The short answer is no.
>
> And the file you reference doesn't exist on a 3.1 system.
>
> Duh! I just found it, on the login screen, under 'session'. Seems to
> work ok, although largely unconfigured but I can fix that as time
> goes by.
>
> Now, I just installed another bunch of utilities, using syntaptic, I
> like its interface better. Samba was included, and I've setup all
> the dirs its to mount under /smbshares, copied over my samba startup
> scripts and modified them for that path as a mount point. These are
> scripts that have been working here since forever to cross mount all
> the local stuff.
>
> But, when exec'd on the deb3.1 system, this consistent error is
> output:
> -----------
> shop:/etc/init.d# ./asmb start
> Starting share coyote:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
> on //coyote.coyote.den/public,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> -----------
> with a repetition for each share it attempts to mount, from either of
> the other two machines. The returned message is so instant I don't
> think it even hits my LAN.
>
> Here is one of those mount commands from that starter script, somewhat
> redacted:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o
> username=xxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxxx //gene.coyote.den/public /smbshares/gene
>
> The rest are similarly formatted.
>
> The dmsg|tail shows this:
> ----------------
> shop:/etc/init.d# dmesg|tail
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
> And I have NDI what this is really trying to tell me...
>
> Doing an earlier /etc/init.d/samba start gave me this:
>
> shop:/etc/init.d# ps -ea|grep nmbd
> 14972 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
> shop:/etc/init.d# ps -ea|grep smbd
> 14974 ? 00:00:00 smbd
> 14975 ? 00:00:00 smbd
> shop:/etc/init.d#
>
> A dpkg -s samba claims its version
> Version: 3.0.14a-3
>
> On this FC2 box, rpm says:
> samba-3.0.10-1.fc2
>
> And on the old firewall box:
> samba-2.2.7-3.7.3
>
> And as I said, the latter 2 versions work against each other quite
> well.
>
> So it appears I have enough of a missmatch in samba versions, or in
> the smbmount versions that its not going to work. Is there a
> workaround short of updateing the samba installed on the other two
> machines here, or is there a compatibility switch I can set in the
> respective smb.conf's?
Have you installed the smbfs package?